Read Operatic Divas and Naked Irishmen: An Innkeeper's Tale Online Free - In this humorous and engaging account of how an admittedly asocial retired school teacher reinvents herself as an Innkeeper, the author candidly writes about her challenging twenty year journey of self-discovery. In 1994, at the age of 64 with no business experience and very little start-up money, she buys a turn-of-the-century mansion in Louisville, Kentucky on a whim and turns it into a charming Victorian Inn. Through sheer tenacity, she learns the business while successfully negotiating with maintenance men to city officials, fire codes to blackout shades, and housekeepers to hundreds of guests.

The reader is drawn into that journey as the author deftly wields her way around cantankerous contractors, harrowing housekeepers and no shortage of strange and interesting visitors and events. Through her collected stories, the savvy and humorous business woman gives the reader a personal, in-depth, and honest look at what it's like to be an Innkeeper and still retain your sense of humor.

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Operatic Divas and Naked Irishmen: An Innkeeper's Tale

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Nancy R. Hinchliff

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English

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Paperback

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256 pages

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About the author

Nancy R. Hinchliff I was born in Detroit, but spent most of my life in Chicago. I have undergraduate degrees in music and education and graduate degrees in music, science of education and special education. I am certified to teach English, music, geography, history, and English as a second language and taught in the Chicago Public schools for 30 years and in the school of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

I have been writing all my adult life, mostly journal articles, essays, and creative non-fiction and have been published in newsletters, local magazines, and as a guest on other blogs. In 2008, I co-authored Room at the Table, a cookbook written for the Bed and Breakfast Association of Kentucky, for which we received their president's award.

I’ve written for several online magazines, including Examiner.com, Eye On Life, and Pink and belong to several writers’ sites, such as She Writes, Hub Pages, Blog Her, Open Salon, Blog Catalog, Burlington Writers Workshops in VT and Writing Salon in Essex Junction, VT, (where I now live) I have four blogs, including a writer's blog and an author’s blog and was webmaster for The Louisville Bed and Breakfast Association. Operatic Divas and Naked Irishmen is my debut memoir.

I am now working on a second memoir with a working title of "Roxie and Alfred." It's a story about how my grandparents adjusted to moving from a small farm in North Carolina to the booming town of Detroit in the 1920s during prohibition.

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